‘As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect’ – One of the most bewildering yet bizarre expositions to a novella ever written, Metamorphosis is argued to have secured Franz Kafka’s podium within literature as ‘20th Century’s most significant writer’. His cacophony of anxiety and alienation has established his own writing technique within the human emotional spectrum – ‘Kafkaesque’. Kafka’s society isn’t pleasurable, reflecting the tiresome torment of an inescapable nightmare yet for some dark periods of time we will eventually end up there.